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Our annual Umbraco Conference - CodeGarden - is here again. On
June 24-25th 2010 web developers, designers, editors and other
Umbracians from all over the world will gather in Copenhagen for
the sixth time. We opened registration last week and we're already
past 70 attendees which means it took less than 48 hours to
outnumber the number of attendees from 2005-2007!

CodeGarden is a phenomenal
conference and THE conference to attend if you work with Umbraco or
consider doing it. We've managed to keep the early bird
price at EUR300 and that's a *steal* for three full days
of talks from all the numero uno Umbraco experts and the fee is
even including swag, awesome organic food and loads of surprises
along the way.

ASP.NET MVC Pre conference

As we revealed last year, we're transitioning to Microsoft
ASP.NET MVC for the next version of Umbraco - Umbraco 5 - which
we're aiming to release Q1 2011. At last years CodeGarden, I also
promised that we'd help to make this a smooth transition for
everyone. And action speaks louder than words, so I'm proud that
we're not only thinking about how the software works but also in
how to raise the level of competence for people in the Umbraco
community by arranging an MVC pre-conference day on the 23rd.

We've somehow managed to convince MVC experts Simone Chiaretta
and Jon Galloway to come and do MVC bootcamps on the day before
CodeGarden starts (June 23rd). It's free for all
attendees and it's an absolutely stunning chance to get up
to speed with the next generation of ASP.NET and the foundation of
Umbraco 5.

Simone Chiaretta is an
ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider as well as the author of the Beginning
ASP.NET MVC from Wrox. Jon Galloway is
working at Microsoft and is the author of the coming Professional
ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Ensure your ticket today!

All the previous CodeGardens have sold out and the ticket sale
this year has obviously blown us away. Make sure to register
today - either before the price goes up or before CodeGarden10
is sold out.

Hello all,
It's Warren (The CWS guy) here I haven't blogged for Umbraco
Corp for quite a while now, but its good to do a guest post
again.

Last week Adam Shallcross from The
Cogworks and myself from Xeed hosted the 5th Birthday party on 16th
February 2010 in London and I'm glad to say it was a huge success,
with around 75-80 people turning up to watch a jam packed day full
of talks, birthday cake and mingling.

Some attendees at the 5th BirthdayPhoto: Douglas Robar

Adam and me organised the day to be a fun day as possible, with
each attendee getting a birthday goodie bag that included:

Umbraco pen

Umbraco & Our.Umbraco button badges

Umbraco paper pad for all those important notes

Drink Voucher

Party popper

Party hat

Umbraco button badges that attendees
receivedPhoto: Warren Buckley

The day's schedule was as follows:

Per from Umbraco - The history of Umbraco & what is to come
in the future

We got a lot of users in North America - in fact it's the number
one visiting country on this website - but we've never had a good
(official) way to support them. So to find a way, we went on a
company retreat and had some unexpected help:

To show how much we appreciate their work, we made the Umbraco
MVP - Most Valued People (*not* professionals) program in 2007. If
you take a look at the ten different people who've previously received
the MVP award, I'm sure you'll find out that they helped you
when you started with Umbraco and that your Umbraco sites are using
their packages.

Previously it was Per and I who decided who got to be MVPs, but
last year we decided to change that. Let the people who've received
help be the ones who choose the MVPs. So we invented the Karma
system on Our and we've used that to make a shortlist of the twenty
candidates for the 2010 MVP award: